The scandalous expulsion of left-wing film director Ken Loach has provoked widespread anger amongst Labour’s rank and file. The fight against the purge must be both a struggle to clear out the right and a struggle for bold socialist policies.
The expulsion of socialists from the Labour Party has spilt over onto university campuses, with Lancaster Uni Labour Club proposing to ban Marxist society members. Activists must defy the right wing, join the Marxists, and fight the purge.
Ben Gliniecki recently received a letter of automatic exclusion from the Labour Party officialdom for the ‘crime’ of supporting Socialist Appeal. Here is his reply to the Labour bureaucracy.
In response to the Labour right wing’s move to purge socialists from the party, solidarity motions and statements have come in from across the rank and file of the labour movement. Now the left must mobilise to drive out Starmer and the right.
After years of harassment from the Labour right wing, the local council, and the Tory press, left-wing MP Apsana Begum has been acquitted of all the trumped-up charges levelled at her. Now it is time for her opponents to face justice.
Labour is in a parlous financial state, due to the rightwards shift undertaken by Starmer, and the resultant exodus of members. The right wing are destroying the party, as they seek to appease the establishment. They must be shown the door.
For decades, militant trade union activists have been targeted by the bosses. Now Marxists in the Labour Party will face similar victimisation, as part of Starmer’s purge. The scourge of blacklisting must be fought across the labour movement.
Socialist Appeal, the Marxist voice of Labour and youth, has been expelled from the Labour Party, with the right wing saying we are ‘alien’ and ‘toxic’ to the party’s ‘aims and values’. Rob Sewell answers the lies, smears, and slanders.
Labour’s right-wing dominated NEC has ruled that all candidate selections in the city of Liverpool will come under the control of the national party. This attack on grassroots democracy must be resisted by the whole left of the party.
Join Rob Sewell and Adam Booth to hear about the Labour right’s plan to kick Socialist Appeal supporters out of the Labour party, and why the left must organise to fight back against this direct political attack.
Thousands of Labour members are set to be expelled, following a vote by the party’s ruling body today to permanently ban Socialist Appeal and other left groups. But we will not be cowed by this attack. Join us in the struggle for socialism.
Following confirmation that the Labour right wing are set to proscribe Socialist Appeal at tomorrow’s NEC meeting, solidarity has flooded in from across the labour movement. The left must fight back against this politically-motivated attack.